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Dear collegues,

This article has been written by an experienced English teacher, prof. Barbara Ghedi, who
courageously decided to propose POLITICS and the use of Web 2 technologies in one of her classes
in May 2010 and wrote her impressions about the use of the new way of teaching.
                                                                   Mirella Cusinato



                   STUDENTS RESPONSE TO THE POLITICS PROJECT




When first proposed in class last May, the Politics project got quite a cold response, as the students
very first impression was they would have to do extra school work of no special interest for them.
Their response started getting warmer when they were asked to brainstorm the topics and issues to
focus on in developing the project, as they realized the contents would be their own choice and the
related work their own creation.
The brainstorming led to quite an impressive list of issues, which were the closest to their personal
interests and attention; from which they agreed the first one they would concentrate on would be a
hot issue here in Italy, i.e. immigration.
At the end of the school year last June, they were invited to start collecting information on
immigration through the Internet, in whatever form they preferred (videos, texts, graphs, photos,
documents, newspaper articles, etc), during their summer holidays.
Some of the best motivated students collected and produced quite a quantity of material, that the
whole class is now proceeding to analyse, process and organize in modules and shorter units
with related activities; for example:
Module one: Migration inside Europe
    - Unit 1: Freedom of movement
    - Unit 2: the Schengen Treaty.
Module two: Immigration to Europe
The enthusiasm of the first group of students on starting the project has now quite caught most of
the others, and currently the whole class is participating heartily. Theyre working on it both at
home and in the school laboratory; and the spreading feeling among them is that the time theyre
devoting to this project is time theyre actually devoting to themselves and their personal interests.
More like a hobby than work.

Nichelino, 10th October 2010                               Barbara Ghedi
                                                          ( English Teacher)

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  • 1. Dear collegues, This article has been written by an experienced English teacher, prof. Barbara Ghedi, who courageously decided to propose POLITICS and the use of Web 2 technologies in one of her classes in May 2010 and wrote her impressions about the use of the new way of teaching. Mirella Cusinato STUDENTS RESPONSE TO THE POLITICS PROJECT When first proposed in class last May, the Politics project got quite a cold response, as the students very first impression was they would have to do extra school work of no special interest for them. Their response started getting warmer when they were asked to brainstorm the topics and issues to focus on in developing the project, as they realized the contents would be their own choice and the related work their own creation. The brainstorming led to quite an impressive list of issues, which were the closest to their personal interests and attention; from which they agreed the first one they would concentrate on would be a hot issue here in Italy, i.e. immigration. At the end of the school year last June, they were invited to start collecting information on immigration through the Internet, in whatever form they preferred (videos, texts, graphs, photos, documents, newspaper articles, etc), during their summer holidays. Some of the best motivated students collected and produced quite a quantity of material, that the whole class is now proceeding to analyse, process and organize in modules and shorter units with related activities; for example: Module one: Migration inside Europe - Unit 1: Freedom of movement - Unit 2: the Schengen Treaty. Module two: Immigration to Europe The enthusiasm of the first group of students on starting the project has now quite caught most of the others, and currently the whole class is participating heartily. Theyre working on it both at home and in the school laboratory; and the spreading feeling among them is that the time theyre devoting to this project is time theyre actually devoting to themselves and their personal interests. More like a hobby than work. Nichelino, 10th October 2010 Barbara Ghedi ( English Teacher)